The hand was icy cold, as if it had come out of an ice cellar, without any warmth at all.

His palm was placed on Wen Qing's chest, but not only did it not warm him up, it was actually absorbing Wen Qing's body heat.

Wen Qing was trembling all over from the cold, her rosy lips gradually lost their color, and her cheeks became paler.

So cold...

Suddenly, he heard another sneer.

Something bit his Adam's apple. It was not the slender and soft thing from before. It looked like lips, but not as soft as lips. It seemed to be an ice cube in the shape of lips, caressing his neck in an ambiguous way.

Wen Qing instinctively raised his head, whimpering in his throat and making a slight sound.

Sensing his resistance, the man sneered and said in a drawling tone: "I don't want this or that. I never do business at a loss."

"I told you, equal exchange."

"I saved you... so you have to give me some benefits in return."

Wen hummed lightly, bent his fingers slightly, and touched a foot. It was still cold, like a clothing model in a shopping mall, or a statue made of plaster.

"If you keep silent, you agree." The man chuckled.

Wen Qing opened his mouth as hard as he could, wanting to say that he didn't agree and wanting to scold him for being a cheat.

Then, the other person's lips covered mine.

There was no lip-to-lip contact, just simple caressing and kissing of the lips.

Wen Qing closed his mouth, but the other party deliberately held his lower lip and forced him to open his mouth.

Wen hummed twice and subconsciously tried to use his tongue to push his lips open.

Then, a strange taste came to the tip of my tongue.

It tastes light, like lime powder, like the taste of licking the wall when I was a child.

Unpalatable.

Wen Qing's face wrinkled instantly, with disgust written all over his face.

"Squeamish."

The man snorted and pinched his face: "I'll let you go this time."

"Next time..." The man paused, as if he had thought of something, and suddenly chuckled, "You never know what will happen next time, poor little thing."

…………

When Wen Qing woke up, her body felt both cold and hot. The hair on her forehead was soaked with cold sweat and stuck to her face, and her back was also chilly.

The surface of his body was freezing cold, but inside he felt inexplicably warm, as if someone was afraid that he was cold and had set fire to his body.

After a while, Wen Qing's hands and feet gradually warmed up.

His brain also began to work slowly.

After a while, Wen Qing asked in a daze: "System, I, I just..."

001: [Hmm?]

For some reason, Wen Qing felt that the system's voice sounded a little unpleasant.

He pursed his lips, lowered his voice, and asked softly, "Did I fall asleep just now?"

001 hummed.

Wen Qing rubbed his eyes, and was slightly stunned when he felt the water stains on his face, and his cheeks turned red.

He was drooling in his sleep?!

Wen Qing wiped it quickly.

There was deathly silence in the confinement room, and soon Wen Qing couldn't help but start to think about the things he was afraid of.

He lowered his eyes and continued chatting with the system with a red face: "I seemed to dream of snakes, several of them, and then..."

Then Wen Qing couldn't remember clearly. What happened in the dream was vague, just like a dream, and he forgot it as soon as he woke up.

After thinking for a while, he managed to remember some fragments: "It seems... there is another wall pressing on me..."

Very heavy.

001 said: [Don’t think about it.]

Wen Qing was stunned.

001 said indifferently: [It’s meaningless.]

【You can leave in five minutes. 】

Wen Qing nodded as if he understood, and couldn't help asking, "Does this count as confinement for me?"

But at most he had a nightmare and didn't see anything scary.

001 Explanation: [Limited time buff.]

Wen Qing was stunned for a moment: "That unknown liquid buff?"

So he didn't see anything scary?

He suddenly realized, "So this is what it means to be refreshed and clear-minded."

001 silently looked at the last explanation of buff: You can still fight on the bed for three hundred rounds.

He reminded in a deep voice: [Each explanation has its own meaning.]

Wen Qing didn't understand, but still responded obediently: "Okay."

Not long after, the door of the confinement room opened.

Teacher Chen was standing at the door. Because the light was shining from behind him, Wen Qing couldn't see his appearance clearly. He only saw that Teacher Chen's right hand was hanging down, as if it was broken.

"You can go now."

Wen Qing quickly stood up from the ground. He had been sitting for too long and his vision went dark when he stood up suddenly.

His body swayed, and Teacher Chen immediately reached out to hold him up.

Wen Qing touched Teacher Chen's hand. It was soft and inelastic, as if it had no bones, like a dead person's hand, and icy cold.

Wen Qing's eyelids twitched, and he quickly withdrew his hand, stammering, "Thank you, thank you, teacher."

"You're welcome," Teacher Chen smiled gently, "Come on, I'll take you back to the dormitory."

Wen Qing nervously took a step to the side and whispered, "No need to trouble the teacher."

"I'm fine. I can go back by myself."

Teacher Chen walked beside him with a smile on his face, without saying a word, as if he was determined to send him back.

Wen Qing didn't dare to say much. He walked along the corridor with his eyes and nose focused.

When I walked out of the basement, I saw the statue of Yu Xing again.

Wen Qing paused, feeling that the statue looked a little different from when he came in.

Not sure if it was my illusion, I looked at it a few more times.

He tilted his head and looked at it for a while. The corners of the statue's mouth seemed to be raised a little?

The lips are also a bit discolored.

Wen Qing blinked. It seemed to be a low-quality statue that was even fading in color.

On the way back to the dormitory, Wen Qing did not see Bai Tong, Li Jingjing, and Oz. There were only him and Teacher Chen along the way.

After sending her to the dormitory door, Teacher Chen stopped and said to Wen Qing with a smile, "Go and have a rest."

Wen Qing nodded, said goodbye to the teacher politely, and ran in without looking back.

Teacher Chen stood there until Wen Qing's back disappeared from his sight. Then the smile on his face suddenly disappeared, and his slightly shaking right hand fell to the ground with a snap.

Teacher Chen bent down, calmly picked up his right hand, put his sleeve back on, turned around and walked into the darkness, gradually disappearing.

Wen Qing walked to the third floor and stopped.

He didn't dare go back to his dorm, fearing that Oz might be there too.

After hesitating for a while, he turned and walked towards Bai Tong's dormitory. Just as he was about to raise his hand to knock on the door, Bai Tong's voice rang out from the stairs: "Wen Qing."

Wen Qing turned sideways, Bai Tong and Li Jingjing had just walked upstairs.

Bai Tong looked normal, as if nothing had happened, but Li Jingjing was pale and looked frightened.

Bai Tong walked quickly to Wen Qing, looked into his eyes, stared for a moment, and breathed a sigh of relief: "I'm glad you're okay, let's go in and talk."

The three of them walked into Bai Tong's bedroom, and Bai Tong poured a cup of hot water for each of them.

Li Jingjing held the water cup and said with a pale face, "Damn, I saw a group of black rats in there. Some of them were rotten, but they were still chirping over there."

She sipped the water and said with disgust, "It's really disgusting. I almost got brainwashed."

Bai Tong lowered his eyes and said calmly: "I saw what happened in the past."

He did not elaborate, and Wen Qing and Li Jingjing did not ask any further questions.

Wen Qing was about to speak when Li Jingjing quickly said to him, "No, no, no, don't say anything. Don't think about those evil things anymore. I just wanted to complain."

Wen Qing smiled at her: "I didn't see anything messy."

He told the truth: "I fell asleep in there and had a dream, but I couldn't remember it clearly when I woke up."

"The system said it was because of what the high priest gave me to drink during the day."

Li Jingjing was stunned for a moment, then said, "Is it the juice from that vine?"

"How about we go steal some tomorrow?"

Seeing her excited look, Bai Tong frowned and said seriously: "What you actively grab and what you passively get are not necessarily the same thing."

"That makes sense," Li Jingjing sighed, "Forget it, let's go to bed first."

Wen Qing put down the cup and just stood up when he heard Bai Tong say, "Wen Qing, do you want to sleep here with me tonight?"

Wen Qing was stunned.

"It seems that the curfew only applies to the outside of the dormitory building, and there are no teachers to check the rooms at night," Bai Tong explained with half-closed eyes, "and I am not very confident about Oz."

Li Jingjing paused, and remembered what happened before she was put in solitary confinement. She said unhappily, "Oz is so deep-rooted. If you violate the school rules, then you violate them. Why did you suddenly bring our Wen Qing with you and ruin our Wen Qing's reputation?"

Wen Qing pursed his lips and whispered to her: "He is as cold as ice!"

Bai Tong added: "If you're worried, I can sleep in your dormitory's living room."

Wen Qing was a little confused: "Why are you not at ease?"

What is he worried about?

"I can sleep here," Wen Qing blinked and whispered, "but I want to take a shower first."

Li Jingjing just walked to the door and heard Wen Qing's words. He stopped and turned to the two of them and said, "I want to sleep together too."

Bai Tong was puzzled: "Haven't you always slept together?"

Li Jingjing raised the corner of his mouth: "I mean we sleep in the same room."

"I'm a little worried about rats in the dormitory now. I feel safer sleeping in the same room with our Brother Bai."

"Just don't treat me like a woman."

Bai Tong responded.

Wen chuckled and said, "Then Bai Tong and I will sleep on the floor, and you can sleep on the bed."

"I'm so sorry," Li Jingjing said, then turned around and climbed onto the bed with a smile, covered them with the quilt, and said to the two of them, "Good night."

The three of them took turns washing up. Wen Qing, holding a towel, slowly remembered that his clothes were all in the dormitory on the fourth floor, and Bai Tong's clothes were too big for him.

Wen Qing said, "I'll go get my clothes first."

Bai Tong responded: "I'll go with you."

Li Jingjing immediately sat up from the bed: "I'll go too."

I went up to the fourth floor and opened the door. Room 406 was quiet and there was no one in it.

Wen Qing quickly packed his clothes and prepared to live with Bai Tong for the time being.

He had just closed the door of his dormitory when the door of the dormitory next door opened a little.

There were several players standing behind the door, watching them warily.

Wen Qing was stunned for a moment, then met the eyes of one of the shorter players, who immediately closed the door.

Li Jingjing said, "Let's go quickly. We can still sleep for a few hours."

Wen Qing paused, tilted his head to look at them, and asked, "Should we tell them about the confinement?"

Li Jingjing paused and raised an eyebrow at Bai Tong: "Teacher Bai's small class should start."

Wen Qing was bewildered. Bai Tong looked at him helplessly, then turned and walked towards the door of the player's dormitory.

Li Jingjing leaned close to Wen Qing's ear and whispered, "Newbie, study Teacher Bai's lesson well."

"It's called Mind Your Own Business."

As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Tong knocked on the door.

The door didn't open, and the player behind the door said angrily: "Why are you knocking? Are you looking for a fight?!"

Bai Tong leaned against the wall, raised his eyelids and looked at Wen Qing: "More people will die tomorrow."

Those players seemed to think that Bai Tong was cursing them, and angrily said, "If anyone is going to die, it's you who should die."

Bai Tong said straight to the point: "The system said to pay attention to the school rules, but it doesn't mean that we should abide by the school rules."

"It's to make us violate school rules."

"Only by being put in solitary confinement and cleansing your body and mind will you be safe for the next few days."

The player behind the door fell silent.

Just when Wen Qing thought he would thank Bai Tong, he heard an angry curse from behind the door: "Bullshit!"

"You, you just want to trick us into being test subjects!"

Bai Tong looked at Wen Qing and continued, "We all came out of the confinement room safely. What are you afraid of?"

Player: "You have props on you, so of course nothing will happen."

"You, you just want the rest of us to die in the confinement room as soon as possible, and then more people will die, and then you will be safe..."

Bai Tong then asked, "Aren't Zhang Chengrun and Chen Qiang still alive?"

The player gnashed his teeth and said, "They are all in the same state as if they were dead. They are not there for you to slaughter."

"I know that there will be only 69 students left before the birthday of the God. Killing Chen Qiang and Zhang Chengrun is not enough, and you want to attack us..."

No matter what Bai Tong said, the player didn't believe it and seemed to be sure that Bai Tong wanted to kill them.

Wen Qing stared at Bai Tong in a daze.

Bai Tong shrugged at him and said calmly, "Let's go back to sleep."

Wen Qing followed them downstairs in a daze.

Back in the bedroom, Li Jingjing explained in a low voice: "This is a god-level copy, with advanced tasks and extra rewards."

"The rewards are limited. One less player means one less enemy."

"Strangers rarely cooperate sincerely with each other. Be wary of those who are nice to you, as they usually have other intentions."

Wen Qing looked at Li Jingjing in confusion: "Then why did you cooperate with Bai Tong and me?"

Li Jingjing smiled and told the truth: "First, because you are a newcomer, and newcomers are generally stupid."

Wen Qing: ???

I feel like I'm being implied.

"Haha, I'm not stupid, I'm just naive," Li Jingjing smiled and continued, "Of course, the main reason is Bai Tong."

"Bai Tong is a well-known philanthropist in the world."

"In this world, I can also confess my identity card to Bai Tong."

Wen Qing digested it for a while and understood what Li Jingjing meant.

Many players should have been taken care of and guided by Bai Tong when they first arrived in the human world.

Li Jingjing turned around and asked Wen Qing, "You are a newcomer, so you probably don't know the gossip about Bai Tong, right?"

Wen Qing responded and asked curiously, "Does Bai Tong actually have gossip?"

"Yes, yes. How come a good-natured person like Bai Tong suddenly appears in a place like this?" Speaking of gossip, Li Jingjing immediately perked up and cheerfully told some scientific stories.

"Someone said that Bai Tong was taken care of in this way when he entered this world before. Then that person died, and before he died, he asked Bai Tong to pass on his legacy."

"Some people also say that Bai Tong used to be a bad guy who did all kinds of evil things. Later, a Bodhisattva named Zhen, Shan, and Mei tried to influence him. As a result, Zhen, Shan, and Mei died. Bai Tong started to guide novice players for the sake of his dead sweetheart."

"Some people also say that Bai Tong is not a human, but a monster who came to the human world to endure tribulations and experience training. He needs to do many good deeds to become a human..."

The gossip became more and more outrageous. Bai Tong looked at them speechlessly: "The person involved is still here."

Li Jingjing chuckled and asked, "So? Brother Bai, why are you a good person?"

Bai Tong laughed: "I don't think I'm a good person."

"It's almost three o'clock, go to bed."

****

The next morning

At exactly seven o'clock, a broadcast was heard in the dormitory building.

This time the broadcast was not a prayer as usual, but an announcement urging them to gather: "All students, gather downstairs of the dormitory in half an hour."

"The teacher will lead everyone to the temple."

Wen Qing got up in a daze and washed up. Too many things happened yesterday and he only slept for a few hours. His mind was dull until he gathered downstairs of the dormitory and got some fresh air before he came to his senses.

The person in charge was still Teacher Chen. This time, there was no smile on his face. He looked at everyone expressionlessly and said, "The High Priest's Building was broken into by an evil spirit last night."

The students' faces changed drastically: "Evil spirit?"

"How is the high priest?"

"Dear God, I give you everything I have..."

The students were talking and praying with their heads down. The hall was filled with chatter and was very chaotic.

Teacher Chen raised his voice and said, "The high priest is praying in the temple."

"Now, get in line."

The students lined up spontaneously.

The players stood still, not moving.

Teacher Chen called out the names: "Wen Qing, Oz, Bai Tong, Li Jingjing, Zhang Chengrun, and Chen Qiang."

"queue."

Wen Qing was the first one to be called. He was stunned for a moment and looked at Teacher Chen.

Teacher Chen raised his hand stiffly, motioning Wen Qing to line up with the indigenous students.

Wen Qing did as he was told, he stood in the line, looked back, and bumped into Oz's chest.

The next second, Oz's deep voice sounded above his head: "Hmm?"

Wen Qing's ears felt hot, and she stammered, "I'm sorry."

He turned around quickly, but the gaze behind him became increasingly hot.

Wen Qing nervously took a step forward, away from Oz.

There were three players left in the hall. They were isolated and looked at each other.

"Could it be that what that person said yesterday was true? Is he really going to be put in solitary confinement?"

"How is that possible? It must be fake."

“But they all went to the Aboriginal people…”

One of the short players gritted his teeth and said to his roommates, "It's impossible. If it's true, and everyone is put in solitary confinement, the number of people will definitely be more than 69."

"Don't forget, there will be punishment for attacking the indigenous people. They must be trying to kill us."

Teacher Chen walked at the front of the team, not caring what the last three players said or did.

When he reached the temple, he stopped and said to the students at the front of the line, "Go in."

The classmate responded and walked into the temple reverently.

Wen Qing walked into the temple and found the high priest standing on the platform, looking at them quietly.

Wen Qing's eyelids twitched and he quickly lowered his head.

"Stop." Teacher Chen suddenly said.

Wen Qing quietly turned sideways to look back, and his sight suddenly stopped.

The wall at the entrance of the temple was covered with green vines, layer upon layer, entangled, covering the entire wall, and the outermost layer of vines was crawling and wriggling slowly.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, one of the vines slowly lowered and hung in the middle of the door.

Without even glancing at the vines, Teacher Chen said to the three players, "Go in one by one."

The player stared at the vines and stood still, not daring to move.

It was this thing that cut open Qian Gangfeng's chest yesterday.

Seeing this, Teacher Chen said coldly: "Go in."

The player was so scared that he started to tremble: "I, I..."

Seeing that Teacher Chen's face was becoming more and more gloomy, the last short player gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and rushed through the door quickly.

Nothing happened. The vine seemed like just a decoration, hanging quietly in the air, and even swayed because of the wind caused by the short player's running.

Seeing that the short player was safe and sound, the player breathed a sigh of relief and walked in with trembling legs.

Teacher Chen looked at the last player and said coldly, "Go in."

The last player nodded. He breathed a sigh of relief knowing that the two people before him were fine. He walked quickly inside. As soon as one foot stepped into the door, the hanging vines suddenly stretched and pierced straight into his head.

The player opened his eyes wide and froze at the door.

The slender vines seemed to be absorbing his brain marrow, forming a small bulge, and slowly moved up and up...

The high priest's ethereal voice rang out from the platform: "Evil spirit."

Wen Qing shuddered inexplicably, and this time his voice seemed to carry a hint of satisfaction, as if he had eaten his fill.

He looked up and saw that Teacher Chen at the door also had a smile on his face.

Teacher Chen raised his voice and said, "Drive out the evil spirits."

The students shouted in unison: "Drive out the evil spirits!"

“Exorcise the evil spirits!”

Like some cult ritual, the students looked at the player's body with fanaticism on their faces: "Burn him to death!"

"Burn him!"

The high priest said calmly: "The guilty one is the evil spirit."

"Yang Fan is innocent."

As soon as he finished speaking, several vines stretched out from the wall and wrapped up the body of the player named Yang Fan.

The students shouted in unison: "Merciful God!"

"Glorious Lord!"

Wen Qing pursed her lips tightly, and waves of chills rose from the soles of her feet.

Choose an auspicious time, exorcise evil spirits, burn incense, pray...

These activities are fixed, which means that Teacher Chen was lying just now, and there was no so-called evil spirit attacking the high priest.

But the high priest needed a plausible reason to let the vines eat people.

Yu Xing does not eat people.

Could it be that these things...have nothing to do with Yu Xing at all?

This school is just borrowing Yu Xing's name to find food for this vine?

Wen Qing took a long time to calm down, and tentatively asked the system: [Is the secret of the seminary that all the students are food for the vines? ]

001 didn't speak.

Wen Qing asked again.

001: [No hint equals wrong answer.]

Wen Qing uttered an "oh" and lowered his eyes, not daring to look towards the door again.

He lowered his head and wondered what he had done wrong.

Suddenly, Oz's voice rang in my ears: "What I said always counts."

Wen Qing's eyelashes trembled, and she raised her head, a little dazed.

What?

What counts?

Oz stared at him with his green eyes, then slowly leaned over, leaned close to his ear, and repeated the words he had said before.

"Bite me and get you out of here."

Wen Qing: “…”

I'll bite you to death!